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ONGOING EXHIBITS
LAST CHANCE TO SEE!!
C.O.L.A. 2007
and
Earthquakes and Aftershocks
Through June 24,
Municipal Art Gallery
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood
213.644.6269
LAST CHANCE TO SEE!!
Women Around the World
Through June 24,
William Grant Still Art Center
2520 South West View St., LA
323.734.1164
4th Annual Ceramics Exhibition
Through July 3,
McGroarty Arts Center
7570 Mcgroarty Terrace, Tujunga
818.352.5285
Out in NoHo
Through July 8,
Lankershim Art Center
5108 Lankershim Blvd.,
North Hollywood
818.761.7784
From Where I'm Standing, 2007
and
Spirits of the Ancestors:
A Continuum
Through July 29,
Watts Towers Art Center
1727 East 107th St.
Los Angeles
213.847.4646
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June Blooms at DCA
Summer has begun and DCA knows just how to entertain you and fill your days with art and culture!
ARTICLES
DCA's Watts Towers Arts Center Presents Photo-documentary
Gail Brown's From Where I'm Standing, 2007
Watts Towers Arts Center is proud to present an exhibition of Gail Brown’s From Where I’m Standing, 2007. Working with teens and preteens in Watts and Eagle Rock, Ms. Brown’s photo-documentary presents a riveting, insider’s view of the experiences and perceptions of young people growing up in two Los Angeles communities. The participants’ combined handwritten texts and photographs weave an intricate and intimate tapestry, and present difficult truths with honesty and compassion.
From Where I’m Standing, 2007 will be on display through July 29th, 2007 at Watts Towers Arts Center. Watts Towers Arts Center is located next to the world-famous sculpture towers built by Simon Rodia, near the intersection of 107th Street and Graham Boulevard in Los Angeles.
This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from DCA, with additional support from Eagle Rock Jr./ Sr. High School and the Watts Towers Arts Center.
DCA's Summer Art Classes Begin
Take a break and take a class!
A groundbreaking partnership between local government, music providers, and parents, Music LA is DCA's music education program that coordinates resources to provide quality music instruction for young people throughout the City of Los Angeles.
Music LA gives children and teens a summer of music training in a challenging and creative environment where learning, focus, and discipline are cultivated. It provides professional music education programming in areas of the City where few or no music education programs exist.
Music LA creates points of access between young people, creative communities, and local government to support musicians and arts organizations as music education providers.
Please click here to view the complete list of Music LA Summer 2007 sites. And don't forget to tell your family and friends that students can pre-register by contacting a site near you!
Classes begin July 9, 2007. Also, click links below to find other art classes in your neighborhood.
Junior Art Center
4800 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 90027
323.644.6295
Lankershim Arts Center
5108 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood 91601
818.761.7784
McGroarty Arts Center
7570 McGroarty Terrace, Tujunga 91042
818.352.5285
Call for Submissions
Dia de los Muertos: Honoring the Dead Across Cultures
Rituals to memorialize and honor the dead exist among cultures throughout the world.
One such ritual, Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, traces its history to the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. Dia de los Muertos is a national holiday in Mexico and is observed in numerous countries in the Caribbean, Central and South America as well as the United States, parts of Europe, and the Philippines. Similarly-themed celebrations to venerate the dead including Japan’s Bon festival, Korea’s Chuseok, China’s Qingming and a variety of ceremonies in Africa pay tribute to departed ancestors, albeit at different times of the year.
In keeping with this multicultural celebration, El Pueblo Historical Monument will present in the Pico House Gallery from October 18 to November 19, 2007, Dia de los Muertos: Honoring the Dead Across Cultures. Artists are asked to submit for consideration two and three-dimensional work (including ofrendas/altars) that explores Dia de los Muertos and other rituals from around the world honoring the departed.
Submissions should be sent to Mariann Gatto, Curator, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, 125 Paseo de la Plaza, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Submissions will be accepted in the following formats:
• CD containing digital images, i.e. jpeg format
• Photographic prints
• Slides
Absolutely no email (electronic) submissions will be accepted. Do not mail or drop off original work for consideration. All submissions must be received by August 15, 2007. A maximum of four (4) submissions from each artist will be considered. All submissions must be original work done by the artist. The following information must accompany the submission: artist’s first and last name, telephone number, email address and website (if available), title of work, year executed, media, dimensions and price (if for sale). For more information, please call 213.485.8432 or email mariann.gatto@lacity.org.
Mariann Gatto
Curator
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument
Historic Italian Hall Museum
125 Paseo de la Plaza, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213)485-8432 (direct)
(213) 485-8238 (fax)
mariann.gatto@lacity.org
Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) News
FATE & FORTUNE: An Auspicious Evening and a new exhibition
Saturday, June 30, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Join us for the annual garden gala that benefits the exhibition and educational programming of DCA's cultural gem, the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Inspired by Asian night markets, the Fate & Fortune Gala will recreate the magic and mystery of this Asian tradition with special flare on a starry summer night in the gardens of the historic Gilmore Adobe. The Craft and Folk Art Museum will bring alive this festive tradition with an evening of lively music, dance performances, exotic cuisine, and fortune telling.
WHERE: The Gilmore Adobe, on the grounds of the Los Angeles Farmers Market
TICKETS: $125 individual / $1,000 table (8 guests)
To R.S.V.P. or for more information call (323) 937 4230 x31
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Sunday, June 24, 2008
New exhibit opens at CAFAM!
THE ORIGINAL SILVER’S CIRCUS & ZOO: WORKS BY SONNY KING
Inspired by a childhood spent growing up in the Australian traveling circus, Sonny King creates captivating dioramas of circus life, its people and performances. King’s hand-made vignettes will be on display with paintings, vintage posters and photographs, all of which tell the colorful story of a multi-generational circus family. On view through October 7, 2007.
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 24, 4:30 p.m.
Burned on Society, Holywood, U2 and Johny Angry Live in Concert
Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 90731
A benefit for the San Pedro Co-op Nursery School, celebrating its 50th anniversary of service to the community.
Tickets: G/A: $20 – Students (w/ID): $15 – Children (under 12): $10. Purchase at Sacred Grounds Coffeehouse or call 310.291.8003.
June 30, 4:00 p.m.
Asi Se Siente Mexico
Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 90731
Ballet Folklorico Cultura Mexicana presents students from the Harbor Arts Centers’ 2007 Folklorico for Youth classes, demonstrating dances, costumes and music from all 13 Mexican states.
Tickets: $5 at the door.
Presented in association with LAPD’s Community Outreach program.
July 14, 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Listen, Learn & Make Family Workshop:
Bumps+Dots+Shapes = Landscape
Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire blvd., Los Angeles, 90036
Create vibrant paintings using your fingers, sticks, and brushes in the spirit of Aboriginal painters from Balgo, Australia. Recommended for families with children ages 3-12. $6 per child/Family Membership FREE
July 15, 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Film Screening with Q&A: Rabbit Proof Fence
Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 90036
In conjunction with the exhibit Dreaming in Color: Aboriginal Art form Balgo, learn more about the “stolen generation” of Australian Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their families by state mandate through the 1970s. The film Rabbit Proof Fence follows three mixed-race Aboriginal girls who run away from the state residential school and return to their families after 9 weeks of walking over 1500 miles. Q&A to follow. Fee: $10 / CAFAM Members free
This program part of the Global Links Series and is co-sponsored by Artists for Amnesty.
Through July 21st
Big Death & Little Death
The Road Theatre Company
@the Historic Lankershim Arts Center
5108 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, 91601
Dad's home from the WAR. Mom didn't wear her seatbelt. Little sister has lost her appetite. What should a teenage boy do - go to college out of state or destroy the universe? Accompanied by the strains of live Death Metal music (Fri. & Sat.) by Condemption, BIG DEATH & LITTLE DEATH's dark humor will make you squirm in your seat, yet feel surprisingly hopeful as a new creation is born out of destruction.
Box Office:
866.811.4111 Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
818.761.8829 Saturday and Sunday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
July 27, 28, and 29th
POW WOW
The Southern California Indian Center, Inc (SCIC) is holding its 39th Annual Pow Wow on July 27, 28, and 29, 2007 at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. A Pow Wow is a celebration of American Indian heritage through traditional and social dances and drum competitions. It provides Indian people the chance to participate in time honored activities, teach their youth and exchange tribal traditions. It also serves as an opportunity to enhance non-Indians’ knowledge and understanding of the diversity of cultures among the Nation’s first peoples.
The three day event is the largest of its kind in Southern California and features various artisans, food booths, children’s activities as well as dance and drum competitors from many of the federally and state recognized tribes. The doors open to the public at 2 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
DCA REMINDERS
See Movies at the Warner Grand!
Click here to see the movie schedule.
ABOUT DCA
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) serves as a leader to generate and support high quality arts and cultural experiences for Los Angeles residents and visitors. DCA advances the social and economic impact of the arts and assures access to arts and cultural experiences through grant making, marketing, public and community arts programming, arts education, and creating partnerships with artists and arts and cultural organizations in every community in the City of Los Angeles.
DCA grants $3.4 million annually to over 300 artists and nonprofit arts organizations and awards the Artist-in-Residence (A.I.R.) and City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships. It provides arts and cultural programming in numerous Neighborhood Arts and Cultural Centers, theaters, and several arts and education programs for young people. The Department operates two historical monuments, directs public art projects, and manages the City’s Arts Development Fee, Art Collection, and Murals Program. DCA markets the City’s cultural events through development and collaboration with strategic partners, design and production of creative promotional materials, and management of the culturela.org website. |
